Shoting star across a night sky

Impressive Perseid meteor shower to peak tonight

Aug. 11, 2016

It’s August and that means the hottest show in the night sky, the Perseid meteor shower, will make it annual appearance – peaking in the pre-dawn hours tonight through Aug. 13.

Thomas Cech

A deep look inside living cells reveals a key cancer process

Aug. 11, 2016

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a process called single-molecule imaging to visualize the process that telomerase, a powerful enzyme that can promote cancer growth, uses to attach itself to the ends of chromosomes.

Law school lecture

With new curriculum, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder Mini Law School is open for registration

Aug. 9, 2016

Kicking off with a lecture on employment law, the University of Colorado Boulder’s Mini Law School will be offered from 6 to 7:30 p.m. over seven Tuesdays Sept. 13 through Nov. 11.

Solar flair

1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war

Aug. 9, 2016

A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force’s budding efforts to monitor the sun’s activity, a new study finds.

Bart Foster and Wil Srubar look through a pair of eyeglass lenses with graduate research assistants Sankar Ravichandran and Elizabeth Delesky standing behind them.

Partnership 'looks into' creating new material from eyeglass lens waste

Aug. 4, 2016

Through ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder's Office of Industry Collaboration, entrepreneur Bart Foster has teamed up with members of the campus community to look into an optical solution, how to recycle the byproduct of eyeglass lenses. Made out of three or more types of plastic, currently several tons of the material are dumped into landfills each year.

Aerial photo of Camp Century in Greenland from 1959

Melting ice sheet could release frozen Cold War-era waste

Aug. 4, 2016

Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds.

Snow covered landscape

Earlier snowmelt reduces forests’ ability to regulate atmospheric carbon, decreases streamflow volume

Aug. 3, 2016

Earlier snowmelt periods associated with a warming climate may hinder subalpine forest regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), according to the results of a new University of Colorado Boulder study. The findings, which were recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , predict that this shift in the timing...

Jay McMahon

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an asteroid named after a ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder prof

Aug. 1, 2016

Nearly 750,000 asteroids and comets have been discovered in the solar system, but most are known only by relatively bland numerical designations. This is not the case for the asteroid formerly known as 1998 OS14. The rocky binary asteroids orbiting the sun are now officially dubbed (46829) McMahon after ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder Professor Jay McMahon.

$1 million gift to BioFrontiers Institute to aid graduate students

July 29, 2016

The University of Colorado’s BioFrontiers Institute has received a $1 million gift from John F. Milligan and Kathryn Bradford-Milligan of Hillsborough, California to establish a fund for graduate students participating in an interdisciplinary bioscience program.

Electrical student working on project

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder-CMU add civil engineering to partnership

July 19, 2016

Colorado Mesa University and ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder announced the expansion of their engineering program partnership to allow students to earn a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder by taking classes delivered at Colorado Mesa.

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